Disease Quotes

Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.

Doubt is an old disease. Faith is an old medicine. Compassion is an old doctor. Concern is an old nurse.

Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life.

Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.

When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

The increased rate of brain disease in the NFL population is caused by the way the game is played within the rules.

Disease does not recognize congressional districts or party affiliation.

Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it, to take the good-versus-bad-people view out of it.

Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.

In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.

If only we correct our eating habits than not only we would have perfect body weight but also we can get rid of most of the diseases.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.

Stand up to hypocrisy. If you don't, the hypocrites will teach. Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease.

You know the disease, you know the remedy, only have faith.

Addictions and mental disorders are like a disease, and they need treatment.

Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?

Sometimes people come and they have so much pain and confusion in their eyes... what to do? A few words is a little bit of balm but doesn't really solve the deep disease within.

How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!

Man's feeble race what ills await! Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!

Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions solidify into inalterable systems.

It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

You must have to want it so badly, if there is any way you can live without it, get out of it. Being an unsuccessful actor is like having a skin disease. Make sure your passion is not misplaced.

There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.

That so many people respond to me is fabulous. It is like having a kind of Alzheimer's disease, where everyone knows you and you don't know anyone.

Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me anymore.

Theres very few things that tear me up and get me, but kids, especially terminally ill kids or kids with diseases... gets me every time.

The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.

Drug-use is a terminal disease.

Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly, The spot on your skin is a shocking disease.

Microsoft stepping in is the symptom, not the disease.

Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.

I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use! One dies of war like any old disease.

There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

Either we change our ways, especially the United States, or we will continue to lead the world in heart disease and cancer.

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.

The beautiful disease and The government falls along the weed rooms flesh along the weed government.

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

I feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to hear that?

It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging.

You missed it when you pay more attention to the damaged car in the mechanic shop than the sick human being in the hospital.